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Juab County Jail

Built in 1892 (Prairie School architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Center in Nephi, in Juab County, Utah, was built in 1892 and served as the main jail in the county for more than 80 years. It is a two-story structure and is one of the biggest and best preserved jails from the early 20th century or before that survives in the state of Utah.”

Wikipedia article Juab County Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Juab County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1892, Prairie School architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 45 W. Center, Nephi, 84648
  • When was it listed? November 1987
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Nephi
  • When was it built? 1892
  • Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
  • National Register reference number. 87002060 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

165 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Juab County Jail between 1994 and 2020, burning about 12,426 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 5 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined59
Equipment and vehicle use42
Natural40
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSR 28 MM 37
5 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsELEVATOR ROAD
29 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State Landsnot named
29 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWILKES
29 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsGOLF COURSE
27 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,681 acresUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestBIRCH
24 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHOWARD
21 September 2019Recreation and ceremony2.4 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsWINDMILL

Every fire recorded in Juab County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Juab County Jail: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Rowleys Mine & QuarryGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown
Nephi Gravel Pit #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Nephi Gravel Pit #6Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12008Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12009Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12010Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12034Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Ut Dept of Hwys Pit #12035Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ut. Dept. of Hwys. No. 12034Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Ut. Dept. of Hwys. Pit # 12010Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Juab County

Storms near this property

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nephi, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2002Thunderstorm WindNephi$5,000no account filed
August 2025Flash FloodNephi-Heavy rainfall from a thunderstorm falling over steep terrain in Nephi Canyon caused flooding and an associated closure of SR-132 at mile marker 35. A railroad weather station located near the top of the adjacent canyon recorded 0.59 inches of rain in 10 minutes and 0.9 inches of rain in 30 minutes. Time and location are estimated.
September 2012HailNephi-Penny to quarter sized hail was reported on Interstate 15 between mile markers 230 and 235.
June 2005HailNephi-0.88" Hail covering the ground
July 2001HailNephi-A severe thunderstorm deposited 1" diameter hail in Nephi.
April 2005Heavy RainNephi-no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindNephi-no account filed
June 1998Funnel CloudNephi-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Juab County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
George Carter Whitmore Mansionunder 500 feet1978
US Post Office-Nephi Mainunder 500 feet1989
Oscar M. Booth House0.1 miles1983
Edwin Robert Booth House0.3 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87002060 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Juab CountyAll 21 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.